First to Ralph the ferret............. Loved your surfing game. Great story! Our wolf has one of those squeeky newspapers too but won't part with it long enough to share it with the babies. Re: small children and ferrets........ I haven't found one yet (even well behaved ones) that are as gentle as an adult). I don't have any young children and I don't allow any young children near any of my animals. My wolf hates little children, sometimes the babies bite and my cat scratches at everyone.......so why should I take any chances of anybody geting hurt (pet or child)? Cat Krinkle Sack............ My babies love it too!. And it makes as much noise as a plastic grocery sack but doesn't tear! Although they manage to have their share of grocery sacks still. They steal them out of a cupboard and take them upstairs (under the bed) or put them in their toy box (large round plastic waste basket) and to Dr. Weiss............ regarding the shampoo mixture.........flea shampoo, pert for children, Dr. Bonner's Peppermint soap and Avon skin so soft bath oil...........that post was from me, but I think I'll take your advice......I'll drop the flea shampoo because of the strong chemicals. The peppermint and skin so soft oil seems to be keeping the flea problem under control. Sure do appreciate you and Dr. Williams. Have learned bunches for sure! So thank you and keep up the great work for all our babies. Until next time......... Stinkey, Brandy and Rascal (getting into trouble as usual) Tashe' (the cat that hates everybody) and Lobo the guard wolf! and of course me (their mama) [Posted in FML issue 1126]